Fedora (formerly Fedora Core) is a Linux distribution developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and owned by Red Hat. Fedora contains software distributed under a free and open-source license and aims to be on the leading edge of such technologies. Fedora has a reputation for focusing on innovation, integrating new technologies early on and working closely with upstream Linux communities. The default desktop in Fedora is the GNOME desktop environment and the default interface is the GNOME Shell. Other desktop environments, including KDE, Xfce, LXDE, MATE and Cinnamon, are available. Fedora Project also distributes custom variations of Fedora called Fedora spins. These are built with specific sets of software packages, offering alternative desktop environments or targeting specific interests such as gaming, security, design, scientific computing and robotics.

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Notes: In case where multiple versions of a package are shipped with a distribution, only the default version appears in the table. For indication about the GNOME version, please check the "nautilus" and "gnome-shell" packages. The Apache web server is listed as "httpd" and the Linux kernel is listed as "linux". The KDE desktop is represented by the "plasma-desktop" package and the Xfce desktop by the "xfdesktop" package.

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Version: 28Rating: 9Date: 2018-05-22Votes: 0

The hardware of my laptop only have UEFI and Secure Boot and the Fedora Server is the O.S. Linux was the best run in this machine. I didn' t have problems at instalation configurations.

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Version: 28Rating: 4Date: 2018-05-21Votes: 0

As a desktop Linux OS, Fedora 28 is an embarassing joke. There is a derth of applications that are readily available for Debian-based distros like Ubuntu & Mint. Applications that a desktop user might use, like Libreoffice, aren't installed by default. You might say "well, they're going for a lean install." Well, then why are un-needed applications and drivers installed, & why is the installation .iso 1.8 GB? For 1.8 GB you'd think you'd get some common applications, like videolan or gimp installed. At least it includes some old-skool applicatoins that many modern distros miss, like traceroute & ping. There's no ability to install proprietary video drivers, again you have to old-skool manually install them. In 2018. HELLO Red Hat/Fedora, self-immolating dogma are over! You can give users a choice. & Package management is a similar joke. I installed the KDE spin (KDE is superior. Sorry, I love you Gnome & XFCE guys, but you just can't do what KDE does & nothing competes with Dolphin, Kfind, etc) "Discover" crashes constantly, & it took me 30 minutes to figure out nobody has an updated guide for Fedora 28 & yumext doesn't exist. All of these issues in a "desktop OS?" On the plus side, it's really solid so far, but you'd think for one of the few companies making money in Linux, they'd do at least a fair job of making a distro.

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Version: 27Rating: 8Date: 2018-05-20Votes: 1

I've always come back to Fedora and used it for more than 10 years. Other distros have failed to install or been quite unstable or sluggish. If something is broken in Fedora, it will usually be fixed in a week or two (if it's a critical issue it's fixed sooner).